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What's the button, and what's the karma threshold?

anigbrowl 4y ago
Flagging posts/comments you dislike. I think the threshold is 2000 or something but I haven't thought about it in years. Unfortunately the comment you replied to misunderstood my question. I wasn't complaining about tweets in general (though I find them mildly annoying) but expressing confusion about why a specific tweet (with an inherently unique URL) was being posted over and over when the HN dupe filter should have prevented that.
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  It's not intended to mean "dislike" but rather that you believe it is a violation of the guidelines. It's part of the system for keeping the front page clean. Anybody who is posting anything about the twitterpocalypse however is pretty oblivious because if they were reading the front page they'd notice that nothing about it is making the front page, including the people who posted an "Ask HN: Can you knock it off posting about Twitter?"
  - anigbrowl 4y ago
    The question was about the duplication filter specifically, not about twitter in general or the twitterocalypse or why HN users post tweets.
    - gnicholas 4y ago
      My question about buttons was about this also. Is there a dupe button? How do posts get the [dupe] label if not? Is it manually applied after people generically flag it?
      - anigbrowl 4y ago
        Normally if you submit the same link as someone else it will be automatically flagged as a duplicate, and you'll get a link to the original post. This works well most of the time, which is why I was surprised that individual tweets (with their very specific URLs) didn't set it off. The duplication filter is run by HN rather than user flags. Most of the time it's effective, although if someone posts an interesting story at the wrong time of day and it dies for lack of attention the dupe filter can defeat subsequent efforts by people to repost it. However it's easy to circumvent by modifying the submission URL, just don't abuse it.
PaulHoule 4y ago
See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...

Flagging posts/comments you dislike. I think the threshold is 2000 or something but I haven't thought about it in years. Unfortunately the comment you replied to misunderstood my question. I wasn't complaining about tweets in general (though I find them mildly annoying) but expressing confusion about why a specific tweet (with an inherently unique URL) was being posted over and over when the HN dupe filter should have prevented that.

PaulHoule 4y ago
It's not intended to mean "dislike" but rather that you believe it is a violation of the guidelines. It's part of the system for keeping the front page clean. Anybody who is posting anything about the twitterpocalypse however is pretty oblivious because if they were reading the front page they'd notice that nothing about it is making the front page, including the people who posted an "Ask HN: Can you knock it off posting about Twitter?"
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  The question was about the duplication filter specifically, not about twitter in general or the twitterocalypse or why HN users post tweets.
  - gnicholas 4y ago
    My question about buttons was about this also. Is there a dupe button? How do posts get the [dupe] label if not? Is it manually applied after people generically flag it?
    - anigbrowl 4y ago
      Normally if you submit the same link as someone else it will be automatically flagged as a duplicate, and you'll get a link to the original post. This works well most of the time, which is why I was surprised that individual tweets (with their very specific URLs) didn't set it off. The duplication filter is run by HN rather than user flags. Most of the time it's effective, although if someone posts an interesting story at the wrong time of day and it dies for lack of attention the dupe filter can defeat subsequent efforts by people to repost it. However it's easy to circumvent by modifying the submission URL, just don't abuse it.

PaulHoule 4y ago

See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...